Read Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism Online
Authors: Omid Safi
Tags: #Islam and Politics, #Islamic Law, #Islamic Renewal, #Islam, #Religious Pluralism, #Women in Islam, #Political Science, #Comparative Politics, #Religion, #General, #Social Science, #Ethnic Studies, #Islamic Studies
public response 130 responsibility and
istikbar
85–7
stereotyping of Islam
educational and media 132–4 and interaction 135–7
see also
African American Muslims; North America; Northern countries; Western world
universal human rights and pluralism 329–30 universalism
Islamic cultural particularism and 101 of Western moral values 40–3
Unocal 95 (24)
“us” and “them” impulse 36
values
see
moral values veiling (
hijab
) 11
feminist critique 152–4
school fire, Mecca 33–4 Verghese, Abraham 263
Vines, Rev. Jerry 143 (17) violence
causes, radical and moderate views 300 low- and high-technological 94 (19)
Progressive Muslim view 12
see also
militant groups; vulgarization of Islam vulgarization of Islam
acts of injustice 37–9 individual appraisal of 39–43
see also
militant groups; violence
Wadud, Amina xi, 158, 270
Wahb ibn Munabbih 232 (43)
Wahhabism 27 (3), 28 (9), 48
Al-Ghazali and 60
books on 69 (53)
foundation and beliefs 49–53 Salafism and 54, 56, 57 survival of, reasons 53–4
Wallbridge, Linda S. 284 (24)
Webb, Gisela 149 Western world
Salafabism, liberal apologetics and 58 conflict resolution 95 (27)
democratic Islam and 291–2, 298, 300
Islamic law and 47–8, 68 (48)
misconception of Muslims 34, 35–6 Muslim multiple critique and 2–3 radical activists in 320–1
sexual attitudes 197–8 supremacist puritanism and 43–4
universalism of moral values 40–3
see also
Europe, Islamic influences on; Northern countries; United States of America
“Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” 11
Whitbeck, John 94 (19)
Wolfe, Alan 263 women
books on 75 (101)
medical treatment 92
racism and 237
reification processes, apologetics and 121–2 revivalist segregation 313
school fire, Mecca 33–4, 37–8, 44, 68 (2)
seclusion and prohibitions 75 (101)
see also
feminism; gender justice; marriage and jurisprudence
Women Claim Islam
(quoted) 157 “Women in Islamic Law”, (quoted) 178
Women in Shari‘ah
174–5
Women, Islamisms and the State
(quoted) 149–50
Yezidis 108
young Muslims in America
extremist publications aimed at 313–14 internationalist revivalist views 306–8
rejection of culture and 309–10 Muslim Student Association 310–13 Progressive strategies for understanding
academic presentations 316–17 campus chaplains and even 317–18 psychological and sociological analysis
314–16
recognising diversity 316 search for identity 308–9
through gender segregation 313 September 11, 2001, classroom response 135
young Muslims in Britain 315 Yusuf, Hamza 95 (22)
Zine, Yasmin 315